Tarragon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Tarragon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-barrel-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tarragon Cottage, Long Green, Wortham, IP22 1PX
- OS grid reference
- TM 082 770
- Coordinates
- 52.35187, 1.05604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tarragon Cottage is a house dating from around 1700, with alterations and extensions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a red brick end wall and a thatched roof. Originally a two-room plan, the house was extended by one bay to the left. The cottage is one storey and has an attic. It has a plinth and originally featured a central entrance within an open, trellised, bargeboarded gabled porch. It now has 2-light, modern glazing bar casements, alongside a smaller window in the newer bay to the left. There are two 2-light dormers with bargeboarded, gabled heads. The right gable end is brick, with an internal stack and stepped kneelers leading to a coped parapet. There is a 20th-century garage lean-to on this side. A 2-storey extension to the rear left is also of the 20th century. Inside, the cottage features chamfered cross axial binding beams, posts, a fireplace bressumer, jowled posts to cambered tie beams, and collars clasping purlins.
Local climate
Tarragon Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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